R68s a new openwrt arm device. RK3568 22.5G+21G

dimtass · June 1, 2022, 2:28pm

For those who are interested here are some benchmarks for the NanoPi-R5S.

mercygroundabyss · June 1, 2022, 8:16pm

you should rename the thread. its now offically the R5S.

maurer · June 2, 2022, 7:04am

actually this OP device is called r68s

shdf · June 2, 2022, 1:01pm

Nice device for the price ...

mercygroundabyss · June 2, 2022, 2:43pm

theres another? what did i miss? Ohhh... i see. 2x 1gb WANs

How curious. I'd been following the r5s release but your link is first i've seen of the 4 port version.

The R5S would be better with its SSD for a NAS type usage.

The R68 is more "pure" router but with extra WAN.

robust · June 3, 2022, 3:08pm

As far as I know, I saw a lot of rk3568 development boards here.

R68s, r5s, m68s, h68k series

Let me tell you the general difference: (it's really general, with small mistakes)

size:R68s>>h68k>=r5s= m68s

R68s:65-75$/plastic shell 2g-4g lpddr4 16g EMMC 2x2.5g+2x1g/dc12v

R5s:60-80$/cnc aluminum shell /2g-4g ddr4/8g EMMC /2x2.5g+1x1g/1hdmi/1nvme (poor) /tf card/type-c 5-12v

M68s:70$/cnc aluminum shell /maybe 2G ddr4/8g EMMC /2x1g/1*hdmi/tf card

H68k-a:50$/ aluminum die casting shell/2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/2x1g/sata extra board/1xhdmi/type-c 5V

H68k-b:60$/ aluminum die casting shell /2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/2x2.5g+2x1g/sata extra board/1xhdmi/type-c 5V

H68k-c:70$/ aluminum die casting shell /2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/sata extra board/1x2.5g+2x1g+1xwifi 6e/1xhdmi/type-c 5V

H68k-d:80$/ aluminum die casting shell /2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/sata extra board/2x2.5g+2x1g+1x wifi 6e/1xhdmi/type-c 5V

kevbo_oh · June 16, 2022, 7:45pm

What does the (poor) refer to on the line for the R5s?

mercygroundabyss · June 16, 2022, 9:46pm

its only x1 pcie nvme so you wont get full speed like a proper nvme drive.

The results are more or less consistent across all three tests without massive variations, and in last we’ve got about 380MB/s for read and write, well below the SSD advertised write/read speeds, and results for ODROID-M1, but that’s because of the PCIe 2.0 x1 interface used in this design, instead of the PCIe Gen 3.0 x2 interface used in the Hardkernel board.

craven · June 29, 2022, 1:11pm

Screenshot from 2022-06-29 09-10-27
According to their schematic, NVME uses PCIE3.0 1 lane.

lenovomi · June 30, 2022, 10:58pm

seems from benchmark it cant handle more the 1gbit even on 2.5g iface... and its not supported with openwrt?

shdf · July 1, 2022, 6:24am

Not the official openwrt, but they use their own OS version based on openwrt.
https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=7

lenovomi · July 2, 2022, 3:01pm

@shdf thanks but seems it cant handle even 1gbit properly ;-(

dsouza · July 11, 2022, 7:44pm

Is there any work in progress about adding OpenWrt support to NanoPI R5S?

I already purchased a R5S, and while I wait it to be delivered I've started looking at what would be required to have OpenWrt running on it.

I did a FriendlyWrt build but it is a mess. The .config seems to have a R2S profile with some adaptations. I really will not spend much time trying to understand what FriendlyWrt is doing.

On the other hand, github user @kidding9 seems to have created an armv8.mk patch that seems to be a good starting point (which seems to also be reusing R2S DTS file). When I have some free time, I will try applying this patch to OpenWrt to see what happens.

github.com

kiddin9/OpenWrt_x86-r2s-r4s-r5s-N1/blob/master/devices/rockchip_armv8/patches/r5s.patch

--- a/target/linux/rockchip/image/armv8.mk
+++ b/target/linux/rockchip/image/armv8.mk
@@ -52,4 +52,13 @@
 TARGET_DEVICES += friendlyarm_nanopi-r2s
 
+define Device/friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s
+  DEVICE_VENDOR := FriendlyARM
+  DEVICE_MODEL := NanoPi R5S
+  SOC := rk3328
+  DEVICE_PACKAGES := kmod-r8125 luci-app-emmc-tools
+  DEVICE_DTS = rockchip/rk3328-nanopi-r2s
+endef
+TARGET_DEVICES += friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s
+
 define Device/friendlyarm_nanopi-r4s
   DEVICE_VENDOR := FriendlyARM

--- a/target/linux/rockchip/armv8/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network
+++ b/target/linux/rockchip/armv8/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ rockchip_setup_interfaces()

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dsouza · July 12, 2022, 10:47am

This new review with a new benchmark is more promising. The reviewer was able to achieve 2.35Gbps on the 2.5Gbps ports:

The reviewer noted however that, in order to get the full speed, the following configuration change was needed:

(…) To achieve maximum throughput, delete the pre-configured bridge interface br0, and configure both multigigabit eth1 (LAN1 port) and eth2 (LAN2 port) as standalone unbridged interfaces.(…)

BTW, shouldn’t we split this topic into a new one dedicated to R5S? (this topic is for the R68s….).

mj82 · July 12, 2022, 1:16pm

I been doing some progress with the rk3568 SoC on OpenWrt and the mainline kernel,I got a r5s yestarday ,I could make it work with some issues with the WAN and LAN1 not working at a full speed , LAN2 is working and I did some tests.

jazzor · July 14, 2022, 1:10am

@mj82 i tried to use your r5s image under your releases and dd onto sdcard but it wont boot. I have the 4gb version would that be different?

mj82 · July 14, 2022, 2:39am

They ship the r5s with friendlywrt on the emmc, to boot from the sd card you neet to put the device in maskrom, press the mask key and keep pressed, power on, release the mask key after 4 sec.

jazzor · July 14, 2022, 1:37pm

thanks a lot this worked. On reboot i have to keep doing this, is there a way to make this permanent or selectable?

jazzor · July 14, 2022, 1:43pm

actually nevermind, it tells you on their wiki https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R5S

mj82 · July 14, 2022, 5:16pm

I backported patches from linux-next to kernel 5.19 and changed the WAN port to LAN1 on the R5S